The First Find of the Formicoidea (Hymenoptera) in the Lower Cretaceous of the Northern Hemisphere

Paleontological Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 274-277

  Dlussky, G M ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

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